Titlebook: NASA‘s First Space Shuttle Astronaut Selection; Redefining the Right David J. Shayler,Colin Burgess Book 2020 Springer Nature Switzerland A

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,Expanding on ‘,’,e Pacific Ocean at the end of the joint Apollo-Soyuz docking mission with the Soviets (ASTP). Though it had been known there would be a delay in sending the next American astronauts into space on the Space Shuttle, few would have foreseen the six-year void between ASTP and the first Shuttle orbital

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Who should fly?,later reduced to 15) pilots to train to fly the Space Shuttle Orbiter, and an equal number of Mission Specialists (MS) to meet the objective of developing new working practices in orbit rather than simply training pilots to fulfill those roles.

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The first Mission Specialists,Space Center (JSC) in order to assess their eligibility as astronaut candidates. Of the 128 applying for the newly-created role of Mission Specialist (MS), 21 were women. In all, 208 applicants came to Houston, in ten groups, for their week of medical and psychological testing, as well as facing a s

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All change in the Astronaut Office,A’s latest group of astronauts. As the reality dawned that they had succeeded in making the selection, being figuratively ‘rocketed’ from relative obscurity to making national and international news reports and creating the headline in local hometown papers was, for most of them, well outside their

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Ascan Pioneers,he vehicle and the Mission Specialists (MS) would handle the cargo and scientific instruments. The qualifying requirements for both groups had been opened up, so that the MS could now wear glasses, and all the astronauts could be as short as 5 feet (1.52 meters) and as tall as 6 feet 4 inches (1.93

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Silver Pin Astronauts,ly more popular than others. “I never got to be a Capcom [Capsule Communicator], for example, but that’s a job that lots of people get rotated through,” Hawley observed. By the fall of 1979, with their Ascan training program completed a year earlier than planned, the rookie astronauts were assigned

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,NASA’s All-Electric Flying Machine,d either been pilot astronauts or scientist astronauts, including medical doctors. In our class, we had 15 pilot astronauts, and we had six women. We had engineers, scientists, medical doctors – a real mixture of folks. And the age difference was pretty large too. It was fascinating to see the inter

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The TFNG take wings,ginning of January 1986. In this period, all 35 members of the Class of 1978 flew in space for the first time, with some able to complete a second mission. Following the four Orbital Test Flights (OFT) and two ‘operational’ missions, NASA flew a total of 18 successful missions during that period, al

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The Final Countdowns, the final conversations between the crew of . and Shannon Lucid a few hours before STS-135 landed on July 21, 2011. It was a generation that encompassed the whole operational phase of the American Space Shuttle Program, one which members of the Class of 1978 had both witnessed first-hand and active

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Flying a desk,he loss of crewmembers Dick Scobee, Ellison Onizuka, Ron McNair and Judy Resnik in the Shuttle . tragedy of January 1986. The following are brief encapsulations of the space flights of the Thirty-Five New Guys (TFNG), and their lives subsequent to retiring from the active flight status.